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From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.


Sir Winston Churchill

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DAVID CAMERON It would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste.
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Churchill explains that having a woman in Parliament was like...
NANCY ASTOR THE VISCOUNTESS ASTOR Were you there?”
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FRANCINE RIVERS I love English. I learned it from the speeches of Winston Churchill.
MAURICE DRUON In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS... Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON I'm the American Winston Churchill.
MICHAEL MORIARTY We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not...
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IAN BOTHAM When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b...
LYDIA MILLET There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and tr...
BONES THE DOCTOR IN THE PHOTO No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever."
"Forever has no mea...
ELLEN HOPKINS A perfectly decent fellow may be driven by circumstances to commit a crime and if he's found out he'...
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WILLIAM FAULKNER I hate saying corny things like "traveling incognito." But when I'm with somebody that's corny, I al...
J.D. SALINGER “Love is not to be discovered but felt.It is brewing in air across universe.One needs only open ey...
ANUJ SOMANY I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
THICH NHAT HANH You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.
JAY ASHER Life is a journey, not a destination.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is so torturous to be in the crowd not only because the voice there is usually loud, but also oft...
ANUJ SOMANY When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f...
GARY F EVANS... It seems like all the best people have all the worst habits.
THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people.
ANUJ SOMANY I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde...
GARY F EVANS... Tongues are a miraculous manifestations of being filled with the Holy Ghost.
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THICH NHAT HANH She plucked the blossoms from the bag and arranged them, one by one, in the water glass on her dress...
SARAH JIO Tomorrow is tomorrow.
Future cares have future cures,
And we must mind today.
SOPHOCLES To him, even the momentary was momentous.
G.K. CHESTERTON ‎You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the...
JAN GLIDEWELL I’m pretty sure there are some things in the dark that we’re not meant to see.
KARINA HALLE I know,” said November. He was pale and thin lipped. He helped October out of the wooden chair. �...
NEIL GAIMAN God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name."
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DAVID CAMERON Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
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MARK KELLER Now is everything
Now is the essence
Now is the focus
Focus on the now
For that ...
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ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.
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MATT BEVIN All the things that are in the past are in the past.
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JOHN GREEN What day is it?"
It's today," squeaked Piglet.
My favorite day," said Pooh.
A.A. MILNE And let me tell you something else, my friend," she said in the precise enunciation of a trained nur...
JAMES JONES Be present in all things and thankful for all things.
MAYA ANGELOU Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is yo...
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JERRY SPINELLI How can something feel so crucial in the moment and then seem completely trivial after the fact?
PAULA STOKES There's no sustenance in the past.
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THICH NHAT HANH To live in the present, you need to act or accept but never stay stuck.
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JOHN GREEN

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SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerit...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile -- hoping it will eat him last.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL The English never draw a line without blurring it.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Socialists think profits are a vice; I consider losses the real vice.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL I will not pretend that if I had to choose between communism and Nazism I would choose communism.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL No comment is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL I have never accepted what many people have kindly said-namely that I inspired the nation. Their wil...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never. Never -- in anything great or small, large or pet...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Responsibility is the price of greatness.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at ...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL There is no such thing as a good tax.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Opening amenities are often opening inanities.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit t...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if not...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponen...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is much better policy to prophesy after the event ...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you a...
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